Appeal No. 2005-0806 Page 2
Application No. 10/179,812
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to improved golf balls comprising multi-layer
covers which have a hard inner layer and a relatively soft outer layer (specification, p.
1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's
brief.
Claims 1 to 13 stand provisionally rejected under the judicially created doctrine of
obviousness-type double patenting over claims 1 to 8, 12 and 13 of copending
Application No. 08/815,556.
Claims 1 to 13 stand rejected under the judicially created doctrine of
obviousness-type double patenting over claims 1 to 14 of U.S. Patent No. 6,623,3813.
Claims 1 to 5 and 9 to 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nesbitt4 in view of Horiuchi5.
3 Issued September 23, 2003.
4 U.S. Patent No. 4,431,193 which issued February 14, 1984 to Nesbitt.
5 U.S. Patent No. 5,222,739 which issued June 29, 1993 to Horiuchi et al. (Horiuchi).
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